An injured skier is carried by police and Mount Hutt ski rescue-team members from a helicopter to an ambulance in North Hagel Park yesterday aternoon. The skier, Terry Fordham, aged in his late 20s, of Sydney, was seriously ill in the intensive care unit at Christchurch Hospital last evening. He is believed to have suffered a cerebral haemorrhage after he struck his head in a fall Yesterday afteraoon He continued ski-ing, and later collapsed. Mr Fordham was still unconscious when the helicopter, a Hughes 500 operated by the Mount Hutt Company, landed in Hagley Park at 4.10 p.m.
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98An injured skier is carried by police and Mount Hutt ski rescue-team members from a helicopter to an ambulance in North Hagel Park yesterday aternoon. The skier, Terry Fordham, aged in his late 20s, of Sydney, was seriously ill in the intensive care unit at Christchurch Hospital last evening. He is believed to have suffered a cerebral haemorrhage after he struck his head in a fall Yesterday afteraoon He continued ski-ing, and later collapsed. Mr Fordham was still unconscious when the helicopter, a Hughes 500 operated by the Mount Hutt Company, landed in Hagley Park at 4.10 p.m. Press, 19 September 1985, Page 1
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